Peopling the World : : Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus / / Charlotte Sussman.
A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth centuryIn John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a "race to fill the world," a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. B...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. A Race to Fill the Earth: Mobility and Fecundity in Paradise Lost
- Chapter 2. The Afterlives of Political Arithmetic in Defoe and Swift
- Chapter 3. The Veteran’s Tale: War, Mobile Populations, and National Identity
- Chapter 4. Remembering the Population: Goldsmith and Migration
- Chapter 5. The Emptiness at The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration, and Population
- Chapter 6. “Islanded in the World”: Cultural Memory and Human Mobility in The Last Man
- Chapter 7. Prospects of the Future: Malthus, Shelley, and Freedom of Movement
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments